# sale (commercial)

a change where a product is transferred to a customer and payment is made

- Computed level: L19 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: review  ·  Domain: commerce  ·  Arena: sale

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [products](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-products.goods), [give](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-give.transfer), [pay](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-pay.economic), [customer](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-customer.economic), [price](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-price.economic), [change](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-change.process), [payment](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-payment.economic)

**Through:** the product is transferred to the customer while payment is exchanged

**Novel properties:**
- transfer of ownership
- simultaneous exchange
- commercial reciprocity

## Examples
- In 2023, Amazon sold 1.2 million units of the Echo Dot to U.S. customers for $49.99 each. *(economics)*
- The 2017 acquisition of Whole Foods by Amazon involved the transfer of 469 stores and $13.7 billion in stock. *(institutions)*
- On Black Friday 2022, Walmart processed over 25 million in-person and online transactions nationwide. *(everyday life)*

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